Draft:Kelvin Ho-Por Lam
Kelvin Ho-Por Lam (born June 1979) is a Hong Kong politician and macro-economist who has served as Southern District Councillor [1]for the South Horizons (West) since 2020. He was a former Greater China Economist with HSBC Global Markets. Before joining HSBC, he was a member of the Asia economics team at Citigroup Global Markets in Hong Kong. Prior to his return to Hong Kong in 2015, he was a UK economist at Banco Santander in London. He also worked at several financial institutions in the City of London, namely UBS, Societe Generale and Morgan Stanley Capital International.
Kelvin was born and bred in Hong Kong and educated at Tang King Po School until 1994. He was then sent to study at St.Edward's School, Oxford in the United Kingdom. He graduated from the University of Southampton in 2001 where he studied economics and finance. He also holds an MSc degree in economics from the University of York and an MSc in management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Upon his returned to Hong Kong in early 2015, he has been actively participating in the civil society. He is now a member of the Southern District Council[2], and an active member of Financier Conscience, a professional group. He also provides economic advisory to the Office of LegCo Councillor, Au Nok Hin.
In terms of his recent work as a councillor, he wrote on the contentious issue of bailing out the failing Ocean Park[3]. He blames the cause of the park's downfall on government's policy error. The Hong Kong government introduced CEPA (Individual Visitor's Scheme) in 2003, aiming to forge closer economic ties with China. However, the underlining agenda was to make the local economy more reliant on Chinese demand, making the wider economy less diversified.
References[edit]
- ↑ "HK elections: A winner and a loser". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
- ↑ "Hong Kong elections show public thirst for political change". Nikkei Asian Review. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
- ↑ "Ocean Park failures: how government policy is the cause and the cure". South China Morning Post. 2020-05-26. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
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